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| AuntJamelle |
Posted - Jan 17 2018 : 06:19:41 AM
Am I the only one guilty of hoarding cookbooks? I have a very large cupboard under my kitchen island with two shelves PACKED with cookbooks!
And I think I have more on the way via a friend that is getting rid of all of hers. She is going to rely on Pinterest she says.
Now, I have a ton of Pinterest boards for recipes too but I don't know if I will ever be able to relinquish my books!
One thing I have been doing, however, is typing in my favorite recipes on Google Docs. That way no matter where I am I can call them up and add ingredients to my grocery list, plan meals, etc.
I got most of this done last year, but am going back through my books again looking for things I've missed.
Do you have a favorite cookbook or books? Ones you've found consistent great results with?
My very first cookbook was actually a mail order binder called Great American Home Baking. I paid a crazy amount of money for monthly installments of recipe pages that went into the binder.
BUT I will say that I still make several of those recipes to this day! Over the last week I've pulled that binder back out and I'm going through it and typing in recipes online that I want to try.
I've never really had a bad recipe turn out from that book so I want to try some more of them! |
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| treelady |
Posted - Jan 31 2019 : 07:14:34 AM
Way to many to count and that is after I weeded through them before we moved. I love to read them, like Carole I need the story. I try many of the recipes, a favorite pastime in the cold winter months and make notes in the margins as to what to adjust for next time. I always have cookbooks on my birthday and Christmas gift lists.
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| loribeck |
Posted - Jan 29 2019 : 5:46:03 PM
It seems like the internet is taking over the cookbook as well as any other book. I love the feel of a book in my hand as well as the smell of a book. Going through the pages of a cookbook and marking every recipe I want to try is fun. After I try a recipe I will write down if I liked it or not. I have so many cookbooks that I need to thin out my collection a little bit.
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| ceridwen |
Posted - Jan 24 2019 : 07:52:26 AM
How many cookbooks to I have? I don't know that I can count that high! lol
I just love a cookbook that is full of pictures and stories about the recipes. I find the stories inspire me ... they encourage me ... I do have a soft spot for farmgirl cookbooks, reading about their farm story. I own very little "purely recipe" cookbooks. I want the story, the connection ... the inspiration.
Cheers!
Carole
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| brightmeadow |
Posted - Jan 16 2019 : 4:50:18 PM
Me too! I have slowed it down recently, because the bookshelf is full and the second bookshelf is full, and when I started double-shelving them, I knew I had a problem. I'd like to re-home some of them.
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Originally posted by stephaniesmith
OH ladies, I have such a cookbook "problem"! My collection is over 200 last time I counted, and I'm still adding to it all the time. But I use them, so that's ok, right???
My favorites are the vintage church ladies cookbooks. They are the best!
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| IndoorsyGal |
Posted - Jan 01 2019 : 3:50:09 PM
None. I move too much so I only have a recipe notebook I write all my favorite tested recipes in. Now that I'm settled, I just use the internet because I don't like owning a lot of stuff. Oops, I lied. My daughter bought me Stanley Tucci's cookbook a few years ago so it's on the bookshelf, but I don't think I've ever made anything from it. She bought it for me because I used to have a crush on him.
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| nin1952 |
Posted - Jul 30 2018 : 08:23:16 AM
Too many to count. I also read them like a novel. Who is the hero? Mrs. Smith's meatloaf? Who is the villain? Cinnamon Rolls? I love my books. I feel so sorry for my two daughters when I'm gone. My mother passed away last October and I got most of her cookbooks. It really gives me a thrill to open one of them and there is a big checkmark next to one she tried and liked. She also made little notes in the margins.
Donna Farmgirl Sister #1487
Wheather therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God. 1 Corinthians 10:31
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| stephaniesmith |
Posted - Jul 29 2018 : 3:36:20 PM
OH ladies, I have such a cookbook "problem"! My collection is over 200 last time I counted, and I'm still adding to it all the time. But I use them, so that's ok, right???
My favorites are the vintage church ladies cookbooks. They are the best!
blog: www.atthesmithhouse.com |
| stephaniesmith |
Posted - Jul 29 2018 : 10:42:09 AM
OH ladies, I have such a cookbook "problem"! My collection is over 200 last time I counted, and I'm still adding to it all the time. But I use them, so that's ok, right???
My favorites are the vintage church ladies cookbooks. They are the best!
blog: www.atthesmithhouse.com |
| HollerGirl56 |
Posted - Apr 28 2018 : 2:17:14 PM
I know I have two hundred or more. I would be to lazy to count them. All I can say is that I have so many it has given me a fear of cookbooks. I have cleaned a lot out but some are too special to let go.
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| TroopersMom |
Posted - Apr 11 2018 : 12:34:44 PM
Omg girls, I enjoyed reading this thread so much! I feel much more "normal" now...LOL. I too read my cookbooks like a novel! I thinned my "collection" out about 3 yrs ago.
My absolute favorite books I continue to collect are the Farm Journal cookbooks, they are a staple of life to a country girl/cookbook collector. I also have a Pinterest folder for Antique cookbooks and recipes that I love. I am under BlueGinghamKitchen there. A lot of the cookbooks are all downloaded and can be paged through right from there.
Thanks so much for making my day here everyone! Country girl hugs...
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| 1Anne |
Posted - Feb 07 2018 : 10:48:06 AM
I don't consider myself a hoarder - I'm a collector of cookbooks. And, as with any "collection", more is better!! (Isn't it?? LOL) It's all about the hunt and the thrill of pouring over the recipes that I hope to make, i.e. the dream. Ok, maybe I do have a little hoarding going on - I clip out way too many recipes from magazines & newspapers and store then in labeled manila files for that someday of cooking/baking bliss.
I think my favorite cookbooks are the vegetarian recipes based out of the Moosewood Restaurant in Ithaca, NY, especially the books by Mollie Katzen. There is nothing like a book - let's enjoy our cookbooks!!! :-) Anne
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| Joey |
Posted - Feb 03 2018 : 6:29:16 PM
My. Grandmother, mother, and aunts all collected cookbooks. My mother read them like. Ovels. As the first born grandgirl, I got all the cookbooks. I love them! My favorites are all the cookbook that a company would put out for you to use their product, like Nestle, Ritz crackers, Jello, etc. I just love looking through them.
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| AnnieinIdaho |
Posted - Jan 31 2018 : 9:57:00 PM
I love cookbooks and read them like a novel. Even with so many I still find that many cookbooks I will refer to do not have the recipe I have in mind. So I will go through several of my cookbooks looking for the recipe. I have my favorites but I also enjoy buying the women's clubs and church recipe cookbooks from days gone by. I have one book from the Long Beach, California area from the time period when women went by Mrs. John Smith and her name was left out. These recipes were also all hand-written, no typewriter or computer. It is fun these collections I have from upstate New York to Indian Reservations. There are some gems in these collections. I recently read a tiny pamphlet cookbook put out by Metropolitan Life Insurance in 1957 that my grandma used. It is interesting to see the trends in food. All very fun. When I used to travel with work I always bought a post card, hat tack pin, and a regional cookbook from the area, many were published by Women's groups. Even our local quilter's group put together a cookbook. What fun! Happy Reading and Cooking! Annie
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| AuntJamelle |
Posted - Jan 31 2018 : 06:16:24 AM
Sara - Sounds like a good vintage find! Let us know if you try making that catsup!
Marelene - I love Gooseberry Patch! I already had an ahem, "healthy" amount of them in my collection - then a girlfriend just gave me about 10 more!!! BLISS!
Denise - Score! Hoard away!!!
Sara - I hear you about the charm of books "in hand"! I do love my Pinterest and I'm on the computer so much that I do use and reference the things I've pinned a great deal. But I will never give up my REAL cookbooks! What if Pinterest starts charging for use? What if cyber hackers take down the internet and I need a recipe for banana bread??? lol - ok, so there would probably be bigger problems in that case, but you get the idea!
I actually have created a master spreadsheet of recipes we've tried and liked - it includes both links to recipes online or which cookbook they are in and page they are on. I also typically print out the recipes I try from online - then if they are a winner I slip them into a plastic page protector and then into my favorites binder of recipes. It's a FAT binder - lol!
Nicole - Muwahahaha! I love it!
My copy of "Stop and Smell the Rosemary" came yesterday. I can already tell I am going to LOVE it! Only was able to browse briefly before I was too tired to keep my eyes open last but almost every recipe I saw so far looked like a winner!
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| texdane |
Posted - Jan 29 2018 : 12:17:30 PM
How many do I REALLY have, or how many does my DH THINK I have? ;)
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| saram |
Posted - Jan 27 2018 : 09:38:36 AM
Yes! Cookbooks are a definite addiction, but so practical that we can justify collecting them, right?!
When I go to town (30 miles away) one of my favorite places to spend time is in Barnes and Noble, and the cookbook section is one of my stops. I don't buy them, I just adore them! I guess that's like previewing in the library.
But to the original point of online vs. inhand: This definitely is a sad evolution. My bookmark button on my laptop has a loooong list of recipes I have found while looking for something I didn't already have in my kitchen. About 6 times per year I hit that button, and its always one of those "Oh Yeah!" moments. I forget those recipes even exist. But who can forget that familiar binding, that worn cover, that place holder on the shelf? When I recall a recipe in one of my books I remember what color to look for, the size of the book, and even which section of the book it was in. There is something so vast and lonely about cyber space that things I find there just seem to float about in it with absolutely no points of reference or identifying characteristics to them. But a book...one always remembers a book. Sometimes my cookbooks call me to cook, rather than the other way around. |
| levisgrammy |
Posted - Jan 26 2018 : 5:07:30 PM
Oh my goodness, my daughter is moving and she had a bunch of cookbooks she wasn't using so I'll be taking those home with me. I feel like a cookbook hoarder!
~Denise~
Farmgirl Sister #43
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| MBurns |
Posted - Jan 26 2018 : 1:28:32 PM
have gooseberry patch cookbooks and collect them. they are really fun.
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| YellowRose |
Posted - Jan 23 2018 : 10:16:37 AM
Jaime, on a hunt for vintage cookbooks is like being on a treasure hunt.
A couple of months ago I found a 1933 cookbook "The Wilken Family Home Cooking Album" in an antique shop for $6. It's a paperback with pictures. My favorite picture is Ma & Pa Wilken feeding chickens. The family owned a small brewery. I Googled the brewery but all I found was their collectable vintage whiskey bottles.
There's a recipe for "Old Fashion Tomato Catsup" I want to try.
Sara~~~ FarmGirl Sister #6034 8/25/14
FarmGirl of the Month Sept 2015.
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| AuntJamelle |
Posted - Jan 23 2018 : 10:02:04 AM
Denise - Love that you have a cookbook with your mom's handwriting! That makes it so special!!!
Got a new edition of my Southern Living magazine yesterday and now I am on the hunt for something featured in one of their articles. Junior League Cookbooks! Does anyone have some of these? They are community cookbooks done for fund raisers - in the south I guess - and many of them have won awards, etc. Some are super spiffy some look more like what I think of as a church cookbook.
I ordered one on Amazon this morning called Stop and Smell the Rosemary
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0963242121/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
It has excellent reviews and was also mentioned in my SL article I mentioned. Can't wait for it to get here!
See? There I go! ANOTHER cookbook! |
| levisgrammy |
Posted - Jan 23 2018 : 07:50:50 AM
Probably more than I should have but I enjoy them. I have my mother's that she got in 1946 when she and dad married. It has her handwriting in it which makes me so happy to see. I also have many small ones she had from church and our small town cookbook. Then there were many others plus my own when I married and ones I have collected. I just got around to getting MJ's cast iron cookbook. I am visiting my grands but it will be there when I get home.
~Denise~
Farmgirl Sister #43
"Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path." Psalm 119:105
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| AuntJamelle |
Posted - Jan 22 2018 : 07:04:39 AM
Shannon - That is a GREAT way to add another element to home schooling! Love it!
Audra Rose - I will check out the books you mentioned! And CHURCH COOKBOOKS - they are the best! Have found a more than a few recipe treasures that way!!!
Sara - Crisco! lol We all use it sometimes! I'm actually on a mission to render my own lard this year though - trying to go super old school :)
Dawn - That is a great idea on using the library to vet cookbooks! I will be looking on their website today!!!
I can also recommend the first Pioneer Woman cookbook she put out - have made several of those recipes all with great success. Love the step by step photos! I think most of the recipes are available online too - at least the ones I've made like her Pot Roast, the Chicken Fried Steak and the Cinnamon Rolls :) |
| ddmashayekhi |
Posted - Jan 21 2018 : 07:23:02 AM
I also have too many cookbooks to count. In an effort to reduce their #'s I have settled upon getting them from the library first to see if there is a large number of recipes that I will make before actually buying the book. This has helped me get a little control over my collection. The last one I bought was Chris Kimball's "Milkstreet" Cookbook. It is superb and I love all the recipes I've made so far, which is half the book.
Dawn in IL
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| YellowRose |
Posted - Jan 21 2018 : 06:59:45 AM
Vanessa your mentioning the Sweet Potato Queens reminded me of one of my favorite cookbooks Southern Sideboards 1978. You know it's southern and from that era because every other recipe calls for Crisco. Not shortening or lard but Crisco. I grew up believing it had to be Crisco and now I only use olive oil. Must say fried chicken in a iron skillet with Crisco is the best I have ever had.
Sara~~~ FarmGirl Sister #6034 8/25/14
FarmGirl of the Month Sept 2015.
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| Audra Rose |
Posted - Jan 21 2018 : 06:30:24 AM
I have about 9 cookbooks that I refer to routinely, plus The Sweet Potato Queens books and books by Frances Mayes (Under the Tuscan Sun author). I also have 2 recipe journals. My favorite is from my grandma's Lutheran church ladies.
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